Shanghai's World AI Conference 2023: A Tour of Cutting-Edge Tech

Join me as I visit the WAIC Artificial Intelligence conference on the 6th July 2023 in Shanghai for a full tour of the two main halls. The World Artificial Intelligence Conference, or WAIC, opened in Shanghai on Thursday 6th July at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition And Convention Center in Pudong. With the theme of "Intelligent Connectivity, Generating Future," WAIC 2023 returns to offline and face-to-face connections, after turning to online sessions due to the pandemic in recent years. The highlights are from tech giants like Ant Group, Baidu, Huawei and Tencent. Overseas behemoths like Google and Tesla are also present. WAIC will cover smart agriculture, smart city, metaverse, intelligent retail as well as culture and tourism applications. Many procurement groups will conduct purchase deals with expected value exceeding 10 billion yuan (US$1.39 billion). The deals will cover 5G/6G, Internet of Things, robots, industrial drones, environment analysis and intelligent supply chain. The rapid development of AI technology has made it an indispensable strategic technology for the new round of technological revolution and industrial change, profoundly changing the way of production and life and thinking patterns of human beings and achieving an overall leap in social productivity. The breakthrough of AI technology is being made day by day, and the future once thought to be distant is being driven towards us. As one of the leading regions in the development of artificial intelligence in China, Shanghai should give full play to the “Wild Goose Queue Effect,” take AI as an important driving force to comprehensively promote the digital transformation of the city, make greater strides in building a smart economy, creating a smart life, and shaping smart governance. With the accelerated establishment of Shanghai’s internationally influential “AI Highland,” the...